Founded | 2007 |
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Founder | Joe Pan |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Brooklyn, New York |
Distribution | Small Press Distribution |
Key people | Noah Eli Gordon, Anselm Berrigan, Joe Pan, Michael Ernest Sweet, Daniel Borzutzky |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | poetry, fiction, art |
Official website | www |
Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) is an independent publisher of poetry, literary fiction, non-fiction, art books, and music. The company was founded in 2007 by writer Joe Pan (formerly Joe Millar) in Brooklyn, New York.[1] In 2015, the small press was compared to Radiohead and Louis CK[2][3] for running a promotional sale that allowed readers to pay whatever they wanted for a new Noah Eli Gordon paperback book, leading to local[4] and international speculation[5] as to whether the campaign would be instrumental in changing how poetry books are sold in the US. In 2016, Daniel Borzutzky's book The Performance of Becoming Human, published by BAP that April, won the National Book Award for Poetry.[6]